A few things to share or review around student safety:
- If an emergency situation arose and students needed to be evacuated from King, then teachers and staff would walk students to Glacier Hills Retirement Community off of Earhardt Rd. In that situation, students would only be released (as always) to their parent, guardian, or someone who is listed on the student's emergency card. In other words, if someone is not authorized to pick a student up, the student would not be released to them.
- Please make sure you sign in at the school office when you come to school. All parents and other visitors are required to wear a visitor's pass at school.
- I have once again noticed that pick up and drop off times at school are congested. This requires very careful behavior on the part of anyone picking up or dropping off. The most dangerous situation I've witnessed recently involved two students being picked up from the left hand lane of the front drive. Yes, that is what I said--someone actually picked up two students from the left hand lane. They stopped their car and motioned for their children to cross where cars are parking and pulling out--and then they stayed there until the children got in the car. Here are some of the possibilities of what could have happened:
- students could have been hit while crossing front drive;
- a collision could have occurred between two cars in the front drive while students entered the car;
- a parked car could have pulled forward when the students entered the front drive striking the students.
We have more to think of around student safety than ever before. Please do your part to help.
